Samhain - A Grand Concert sized guitar.
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Samhain is the second model in my Celtic Festival Series, and is a Grand Concert sized guitar with 14 frets clear of the body. Samhain marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year, for the Celts divided the year into two seasons: the light and the dark, at Bealtine on May 1st and Samhain on November 1st. Some believe that Samhain was the more important festival, marking the beginning of a whole new cycle, just as the Celtic day began at night. My own personal guitar was made in Cedar/European maple reflecting the dark/light balance. It is a lovely intimate guitar for fingerstyle playing and as with all of my instruments has great projection and sustain. Mind you, watch Joe Bardwell giving it a good "strumming" workout in this video:
You can listen to some recordings of me playing on my own Cedar/Maple "Samhain" by clicking on the highlighted links. First is my own composition "Samhain" in DADGAD tuning, next is "Catherine Kelley's" a medley of the traditional Irish tune - inspired by Tony McManus - and my own composition "Daithi De Faoite's" in CDCDCD tuning, and finaly my own "funky" take on "The Water is Wide" in DADGAC tuning.
Samhain Taistealai is a multiscale version of Samhain with 630-660mm scale lengths. This guitar is currently doing a Road Trip around the UK - click here for more details including videos and soundclips:
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